BETWEEN THE LINES: READING CRITICALLY A TEXTBOOK

Abstract

In the post-modern society, information and communication have been the dominant agents to the change of social paradigms. Pace and fluidity of ideas and knowledge are responsible for society’s structure in the digital era. Speaking english has become indispensable for those who want to get knowledge, understood as a means of acting in society. The school, inserted in so many changes, has rethought its conception of education and knowledge. More specifically in terms of the english language, one has attempted to prepare a student whose communicative competence makes it possible for her/him to communicate using the four language skills, which are reading, writing, listening and speaking. We understand that reading and interpreting the surrounding world has a direct relation to the construction of sense, understood as a complex net of representations of reality. From this perspective, lays the importance of preparing a student who, besides producing and reading utterances in the english language, is able to take part, in an active way, of the construction, evaluation and negotiation of the world conceptions through her/his critical interaction with the text. At cefet, we have aimed at developing, in the high school level, a work which triggers the student’s critical position, helping her/him in her/his researches and orienting her/him in the results interpretation.